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Spinach is rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, iron, calcium and therefore its very important to include spinach in our everyday diet. This recipe is easy to prepare and also a very healthy tasty dish to eat as a evening snack with tea.

Preparation Time: 15 min

Baking Time: 10 min

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Bread Slices (white or wheat)

Spinach - 1 cup finely chopped

Garlic - 5-6 cloves - finely chopped

Grated Cheese - 1/2 cup

Oil - as required

Note: Put the spinach in boiling water for a min and chop them

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 350 deg F for 10 min.

Meanwhile arrange the baking tray. Spray or grease little oil over the baking tray. Arrange the bread slices in the tray. Spread the chopped spinach over each bread slice.

Then sprinkle chopped garlic over them and finally top them with grated cheese. I used grated mozzarella cheese. you can also use Mexican blend cheese.

Place them in the oven and bake for 10 min. Remove it carefully from the oven and serve hot.

Have you ever been feeling like missing your favorite mutton curry during auspicious or vratham days?? Then this is the one for you. Enjoy this minced soya instead of minced mutton, and you will enjoy the taste of this curry. This goes well with idly, dosa, poori, chappathi, appam and even rice.

Take 3 cups of water in a pan and bring it to boil. Add soya chunks and a tbsp of salt. Keep in low flame for 10 min allowing the soya to get cooked and become soft. Salt helps in stopping the overflow of boiling water while the chunks gets cooked.

In meanwhile, blend the ingredients given in "to grind" into a smooth paste using a mixer by adding water.

When soya gets doubled in size it becomes soft. Now drain out the water and rinse with cold water. Squeeze the soya to remove excess water. Put these prepared soya into a blender or food processor and mince them. Keema is ready and will like mutton keema, right?? ;-)

Heat a medium sized pan with oil, when its hot add the masala powder. Then add chopped onion and saute for 3 min. Onion will start turning golden brown. At this point add our prepared keema. Saute in medium flame for 5 min.

Then add tomatoes and the prepared paste in step 2. Add 2 cup of water and allow the curry to boil for 5 min in low-medium flame.

Mutton keema curry or kothukari kulambu is a very tempting dish for the sunday morning with hot puff pooris.... :-) This dish is prepared from minced goat meat. It is a very easy dish and also tasty combo. Vegetarians who miss this yummy mutton curry or people who miss them on auspicious day can try my soya keema curry which is equally yummy. The flavor and aroma of the spices makes even the kids to love and eat.

Meanwhile grind the masala paste into a smooth paste by adding water. Put the masala paste to the pressure pan.

To this add coriander powder, cumin powder and 1 cup of water. Close the lid of pressure pan and cook for 1 whistle and reduced flame for 10 min. Then switch off the stove and allow it to cool naturally.

Bitter gourd / Karela / Pavakkai is a low calorie vegetable with numerous health benefits particularly, it lowers blood glucose level, also helps in digestion. The bitterness of these karela makes kids and even adults turn away from it. Here is a flavorful recipe that makes people who hate bitterness to ask for an extra serving. ;-) You can even make your naughty kids love bitter gourd.

Preparation Time: 15 min

Cooking Time: 30 min

Serves : 2

Ingredients:

Bitter Gourd / Karela / Pavakkai - 4 or 5 medium sized - sliced

Onion - 1 medium sized - finely chopped

Tomato - 2 big sized - finely chopped

Turmeric powder - 1 pinch

Sugar - 1 pinch

Oil - 2 tbsp

Salt to taste

Dry Masala:

Coconut - 3 tbsp

Red chili - 3 (As per your taste of spicy)

Sombu / Fennel Seeds - 1 tbsp

Procedure:

Wash bitter gourd and cut them into slices (circle shaped pieces). Heat a shallow frying pan with oil. When it is hot arrange the sliced bitter gourd in the oil and allow it to fry. When it turns golden brown on one side, turn to other side and fry.

Once all the bitter gourd slices turns golden brown, sprinkle salt, sugar and turmeric powder. Mix them well. Now add the chopped onion and saute until it becomes soft and golden brown. Then add chopped tomato and saute for another 2-3 min.

Meanwhile in a blender, put all the ingredients given in dry masala section and grind them into a coarse mixture. Add the dry coarse masala powder to bittergourd. Give a good stir until all are mixed well. Serve.

Muttai Kolambu or Egg curry is a popular dish. Usually in egg kolambu, Hard boiled eggs are cut into halves or slits are made in them and added to the kolambu. As a variation eggs can be poured directly into the boiling kolambu. This will add more flavor to the egg.

Bread is a very common food that we usually roast, toast or make sandwiches. This bread masala adds a spicy flavor to bread and makes it more tempting to eat.

Note:

Bread slices can also be fried for making these bread masala. Those who worry about extra calories can just roast them in a pan ;-)

While mixing the bread with the masala, do them slowly without losing the shape of bread pieces.

Try this and do post your comments :-)

Preparation Time: 10 min

Cooking Time: 20 min

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Bread - 5 or 6 slices

Onion - 1 medium sized - cut lengthwise

Tomato - 1 big sized - finely chopped

Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp

Turmeric powder -1 pinch

Chili powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1 pinch

Salt to taste

Oil or butter - 1 tbsp

Cilantro - for garnishing

Procedure:

Roast bread slices in a pan. You can add oil or butter while roasting the bread. After roasting the bread slices, allow it to cool and cut them into small square shaped pieces.

Now heat a large pan and add a tbsp of oil. As the oil is hot, add cardamom cinnamon clove powder. If you do not have powder, it can be added in pieces. As the spices are roasted nice flavor comes out. Add onion and saute until it becomes translucent.

To the sauteed onion add ginger garlic paste. Saute until the raw smell leaves. Then mix them with turmeric powder and chili powder. keep in medium flame and add the tomato.

Saute them until it gets mushy. Sprinkle water if it gets too dry. Then add the remaining spices (Coriander powder, cumin powder and garam masala) and mix well. When its completely cooked add the roasted bread slices and stir them slowly, otherwise the slices will shrink. Garnish with cilantro and serve hot.

Experimenting in kitchen is always a fun and appreciation is always a boost to do more and more different tempting dishes. I prepared this broccoli cutlet when my friends came home for an evening. All loved this cutlet and 1 year old prani kutty even loved eating this cutlet :-) wow...!! I am so happy to see my friends and kids enjoying my preparation....!! A very simple and a quick recipe..!! Made everyone to eat more and more...!! Healthy one too...!!

Preparation Time: 10 min

Cooking Time: 15 min

Serves: 10 - 15 cutlets

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1 crown (12 florets) - finely chopped

Onion - 1 big sized - finely chopped

Garlic - 3 or 4 pieces - chopped

Oil - 1 tbsp

Cheese - 1/4 cup

Bread crumps - 1/4 cup

Salt to taste

Procedure:

Heat a pan with oil, add garlic and sauté it. Garlic gives lot of flavor when sauté in oil.

Add onion to the pan, sauté until it becomes translucent. To this add
broccoli & salt for taste. Cook them until broccoli becomes tender.

Remove from heat and add cheese and mix it up with the broccoli. So that cheese is equally spread around the broccoli and onion. Allow it to cool a little, segregate the mixture into small balls. Balls, need not be too tight, make it easy, cheese helps in making broccoli & onion stick to each other. Smaller the balls, more tempting to eat :-)

Take bread crumbs in a plate, roll the broccoli ball over the bread crumb and make It flat like a cutlet pressing with fingers. Just use little energy while pressing.

The purpose the bread crumbs is just to give a little crunchy feel, make sure too much crumbs are not covering the broccoli. Lets roast them in a pan, Heat the pan (No oil required) to a medium level. Keep the flame mild.

When heat is medium, place the flattened broccoli cutlet in the pan,
just add couple drops of oil over the cutlet. (Oil can also be avoided,
if you are worried about the extra calories :-) ) Turn the cutlet, until it is evenly cooked on both the sides. The bread crumbs turn a little brownish. Remove the items from the pan and Hot Broccoli Cutlets are ready to serve.

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